Oliver Kahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 461862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Kahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahl |
| SIGNATURE | KAHL O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1475-9846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Note on Klb yārh in al-Bīrūnī’s Autobibliography
This short article proposes two possible explanations of the opaque term klb yārh ( كلب ياره ), which makes an isolated appearance in the autobibliography of Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (d. ca. 440/1048). There, it is registered as the title of an otherwise unknown Indian medical work which al-Bīrūnī himself says he translated from Sanskrit into Arabic
Lucia Raggetti: ʿÎsá ibn ʿAlí’s Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts. Edition,translation and study of a fluid tradition
Der GNOMON pflegt als kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte Altertumswissenschaft die Verbindung zwischen den verschiedenen Disziplinen der Altertumswissenschaft. Er nimmt dadurch eine Sonderstellung unter den Rezensionsorganen ein und bietet die Möglichkeit, sich über wichtige Forschungen und Publikationen auch in den Nachbarbereichen des eigenen Faches zu orientieren. Die Rezensionen im GNOMON wenden sich an ein internationales Publikum, das au…
On the Transmission of Indian Medical Texts to the Arabs in the Early Middle Ages
The transmission of Indian scientific and, notably, medical texts to the Arabs during the heyday of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad ( ca 158/775-205/820) is still largely shrouded in myth; its investigation continues to be hampered not only by serious methodological problems but also by a lack of philological groundwork and a shortage of trained researchers. This article, which in essence is meant to serve as a rough guide into one prospective f…
Two Tamil Words in Arabic Garb
This short notice suggests an explanation of mwrh and kmāšyr , two opaque terms which are occasionally referred to in Arabic pharmacognostic literature, but whose etymology and meaning have not yet been established
The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes
In this study of the Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in Rhazes’ (d. 925 CE) famous Arabic encyclopedia titled al-Ḥāwī, Oliver Kahl offers for the first time a textual and historical documentation of an hitherto neglected ‘foreign’ cluster of material
A Note on ‘Arabic’ r/zāmhrān
This article deals with the reception and the etymology of the term r/zāmhrān , a ‘foreign’ drug name occasionally occurring in medieval Arabic pharmacological literature. The argument rests on the sources and focuses on philological documentation
Medieval Islamic Medicine (review)
Reviewed by: Medieval Islamic Medicine Oliver Kahl Peter E. PormannEmilie Savage-Smith. Medieval Islamic Medicine. The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. xiii + 223 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, 978-0-7486-2066-1), $18.99 (paperbound, 978-0-7486-2067-8). Those who are interested in the history of Islamic medicine will no doubt be familiar with Manfred Ullmann’s small classic Islamic Medicine, which was published…
The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīḏ: Arabic Text, English Translation, Study and Glossaries
This book offers a critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the famous dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The dispensatory, recognized as a masterpiece already by mediaeval contemporaries, soon after its appearance became the pharmacological standard work in the hospitals and apothecs of Baghdad and the wider Arab Eas…
The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad (review)
Reviewed by: The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad Oliver Kahl Selma Tibi . The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xiv + 314 pp. Tables. $133.00, €93.00 (90-04-14696-2). In the history of Arabic science, the ninth century AD was arguably the most crucial period. It marked the height of the great translation movement, in the course of which many important sci…
The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲̲̲: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries
Sābūr Ibn Sahl, Dispensatorium Parvum (al-Aqrābādhīn al-Saghīr)
Die Natāʾiǧ al-fikar des Šaʿbān ibn Salīm aṣ-Ṣanʿānī Eine jemenitische Gesundheitsfibel aus dem frühen 18. Jahrhundert. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Idrīs B. Baidakīn B. ʿabdallāh at-Turkumānī Al-Ḥanafī: Kitāb al-Lumaʿ fi l-ḥawādiṯ wal-bidaʿ. Eine Streitschrift gegen unstatthafte Neuerungen. Herausgegeben von Subhi Labib. [1] Text [–2] Indices. – …
IDRĪS B. BAIDAKĪN B. ʿABDALLĀH AT-TURKUMĀNĪ AL-ḤANAFĪ: kitāb al-Lumaʿ fi l-ḥawādiṯ wal-bidaʿ. Eine Streitschrift gegen unstatthafte Neuerungen. Herausgegeben von SUBHI LABIB. [1] Text [–2] Indices. – Kairo-Wiesbaden 1406/1986, in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Sitz Stuttgart. 48 S., 1084 arab. S. u. 132 S. arab. Einleitung (Quellen zur Geschichte des islamischen Ägyptens, 3a–b)" published on 18 Jan 1994 by Brill
Kitāb al-Lumaʿ fī l-ḥawādiṯ wal-bidaʿ. Eine Streitschrift gegen unstatthafte Neuerungen
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Idrīs B. Baidakīn B. ʿabdallāh at-Turkumānī Al-Ḥanafī: Kitāb al-Lumaʿ fi l-ḥawādiṯ wal-bidaʿ. Eine Streitschrift gegen unstatthafte Neuerungen. Herausgegeben von Subhi Labib. [1] Text [–2] Indices. – …
IDRĪS B. BAIDAKĪN B. ʿABDALLĀH AT-TURKUMĀNĪ AL-ḤANAFĪ: kitāb al-Lumaʿ fi l-ḥawādiṯ wal-bidaʿ. Eine Streitschrift gegen unstatthafte Neuerungen. Herausgegeben von SUBHI LABIB. [1] Text [–2] Indices. – Kairo-Wiesbaden 1406/1986, in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Sitz Stuttgart. 48 S., 1084 arab. S. u. 132 S. arab. Einleitung (Quellen zur Geschichte des islamischen Ägyptens, 3a–b)" published on 18 Jan 1994 by Brill
Kitāb al-Lumaʿ fī l-ḥawādiṯ wal-bidaʿ. Eine Streitschrift gegen unstatthafte Neuerungen
Die Natāʾiǧ al-fikar des Šaʿbān ibn Salīm aṣ-Ṣanʿānī Eine jemenitische Gesundheitsfibel aus dem frühen 18. Jahrhundert. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Sābūr Ibn Sahl, Dispensatorium Parvum (al-Aqrābādhīn al-Saghīr)
The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīḏ: Arabic Text, English Translation, Study and Glossaries
This book offers a critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the famous dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The dispensatory, recognized as a masterpiece already by mediaeval contemporaries, soon after its appearance became the pharmacological standard work in the hospitals and apothecs of Baghdad and the wider Arab Eas…
The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad (review)
Reviewed by: The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad Oliver Kahl Selma Tibi . The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xiv + 314 pp. Tables. $133.00, €93.00 (90-04-14696-2). In the history of Arabic science, the ninth century AD was arguably the most crucial period. It marked the height of the great translation movement, in the course of which many important sci…
The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲̲̲: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries
Medieval Islamic Medicine (review)
Reviewed by: Medieval Islamic Medicine Oliver Kahl Peter E. PormannEmilie Savage-Smith. Medieval Islamic Medicine. The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. xiii + 223 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, 978-0-7486-2066-1), $18.99 (paperbound, 978-0-7486-2067-8). Those who are interested in the history of Islamic medicine will no doubt be familiar with Manfred Ullmann’s small classic Islamic Medicine, which was published…
A Note on ‘Arabic’ r/zāmhrān
This article deals with the reception and the etymology of the term r/zāmhrān , a ‘foreign’ drug name occasionally occurring in medieval Arabic pharmacological literature. The argument rests on the sources and focuses on philological documentation
The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes
In this study of the Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in Rhazes’ (d. 925 CE) famous Arabic encyclopedia titled al-Ḥāwī, Oliver Kahl offers for the first time a textual and historical documentation of an hitherto neglected ‘foreign’ cluster of material
On the Transmission of Indian Medical Texts to the Arabs in the Early Middle Ages
The transmission of Indian scientific and, notably, medical texts to the Arabs during the heyday of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad ( ca 158/775-205/820) is still largely shrouded in myth; its investigation continues to be hampered not only by serious methodological problems but also by a lack of philological groundwork and a shortage of trained researchers. This article, which in essence is meant to serve as a rough guide into one prospective f…
Two Tamil Words in Arabic Garb
This short notice suggests an explanation of mwrh and kmāšyr , two opaque terms which are occasionally referred to in Arabic pharmacognostic literature, but whose etymology and meaning have not yet been established
Lucia Raggetti: ʿÎsá ibn ʿAlí’s Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts. Edition,translation and study of a fluid tradition
Der GNOMON pflegt als kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte Altertumswissenschaft die Verbindung zwischen den verschiedenen Disziplinen der Altertumswissenschaft. Er nimmt dadurch eine Sonderstellung unter den Rezensionsorganen ein und bietet die Möglichkeit, sich über wichtige Forschungen und Publikationen auch in den Nachbarbereichen des eigenen Faches zu orientieren. Die Rezensionen im GNOMON wenden sich an ein internationales Publikum, das au…
A Note on Klb yārh in al-Bīrūnī’s Autobibliography
This short article proposes two possible explanations of the opaque term klb yārh ( كلب ياره ), which makes an isolated appearance in the autobibliography of Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (d. ca. 440/1048). There, it is registered as the title of an otherwise unknown Indian medical work which al-Bīrūnī himself says he translated from Sanskrit into Arabic
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